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Clive Thompson • Social media is keeping us stuck in the moment
Frank Donoghue, the author of The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities, writes that liberal arts education has been systemically dismantled for decades. Any form of learning not strictly vocational has at best been marginalized and in many schools abolished. Students are steered away from asking the broad, distur
... See moreChris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Ted Gioia • My Alternative Tech Canon: 26 Mind-Expanding Books
everything had been turned into a business—even intangibles like education and human flourishing.
Ted Gioia • Is There a Crisis of Seriousness?
Critics should be among the first to notify us when the truths we hold to be self-evident cease to be true.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
the United States is a safe place for those who want to criticize the government but a dangerous place for those who want to advance unpopular thoughts about any other subject that could be deemed insulting or discomfiting.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
morality of capitalism,